-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Incidentally, before someone comes to the clever idea: if y'all do decide to > do a magazine, and you do decide to reuse content from the mailing list, make > sure you get appropriate licensing. > > Which, in turn, means you get a real copyright lawyer to OK your strategy. > > Nothing sucks worse than republishing, as an example[5], my content, then > finding out that I deliver a demand for significant licensing fees from you, > backed up with my own lawyer and legal threats.[6] I know what yo mean as it takes a lot of time to get permission to reproduce articles. This is why, in the magazine I edit for my other computer club, I only publish content that is submitted by the author of the material or that which comes with a specific permission from the original author. If someone submits material from an unknown source I find out where it came from and get permission. If that is not forthcoming then I don't publish it. Unfortunately this means that I end up writing about 30 to 40 percent of the articles myself sometimes. I guess I spend about 70-100 hours on each issue. It certainly cuts a chunk out of my life. But with an Editorial Committee it would not be so bad. I do it alone and as some of our members are overseas members it is the only benefit they get from the club. Heracles -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAku2ivYACgkQybPcBAs9CE8zTACgrfF1RLsx69vc3ncIKWlip56d +FUAoLCloUAxiMw1ohPBE0GEcxMZpjlT =40x6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
